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Meghan treated onlookers gathered outside Buckingham Palace to a cheeky flash of her dazzling diamond engagement ring (right) as she and Harry drove away (main image) after attending the Queen's annual pre-Christmas lunch. Also there were the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their children (bottom left), Prince Charles and Camilla, and dozens of the Queen's other relatives. Coming less than a month after their engagement was announced to the world, Meghan's seat at the family table today is further evidence of just how warmly - not to mention rapidly - Harry's glowing bride-to-be has been welcomed into the royal fold. Also in attendance were Lady Amelia Windsor, granddaughter of the Duke of Kent, (bottom right) and Princess Eugenie (bottom, second from right).

The two-year-old royal and her brother, four, both looked all partied out as the left the Queen's festive get-together at Buckingham Palace with their parents on Wednesday. The toddlers were joined in the back seat by 'super nanny' Maria Borrallo who is also believed to have been on hand during the meal to keep them entertained. Charlotte was dressed in an adorable burgundy cardigan over a floral frock, while her older brother donned an £85 knit from Amaia.

Dubbed 'Panic Thursday', the number of people rushing around high streets and shopping centres is expected to be up 60 per cent on a normal day. And there are gigantic savings to be had as stores have slashed their prices hoping to cash in on eleventh hour buyers (left). With schools shut for the festive holiday, millions will be making a desperate bid to stock up at supermarkets and complete gift shopping - especially as many online companies have warned that delivery drivers are struggling to cope with the unprecedented number of orders.

Some of America's biggest companies gave workers a Christmas cheer Wednesday as they passed on their winnings from a dramatic corporate tax cut. AT&T;'s CEO Randall Stephenson said that it will pay $1,000 bonuses to more than 200,000 employees - and promised to make $1 billion in new investments in the United States next year - once a tax reform bill approved by Congress is signed into law. The Republican-controlled House and Senate have given final approval to the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax code in 30 years, sending the sweeping bill to President Donald Trump for his signature. After AT&T; Boeing said it would put $300 million into its workforce, Comcast, which owns NBC Universal, offered bonuses and Wells Fargo heightened its minimum wage.

Psychologist Ros Taylor believes that children who are rewarded with endless 'stuff' without knowing the value may be damaged psychologically. Sadie Nicholas spoke to the families who struggle to agree on the protocol of gift giving. Katherine (pictured right with her mother Suzanne) says she's given her mother strict instructions against going overt the top on her gifts. Tara (pictured inset with her mother Valerie) says her mother thinks she's a scrooge for limiting the number of gifts she gives. Alisha March (pictured left with her mother-in law) says her in-law thinks she wastes money on the gifts she gives her children.

Declan McGee, 48, was caught on dashcam footage tailgating another car in his BMW on the A140 between Yaxley and Earl Stonham, Suffolk. The motorist even drove along a slip road and through a field to get away from him in the terrifying footage. MCGee, from Cringleford, Norfolk, was handed an 18-week suspended prison sentence and banned from the roads for 18 months at Ipswich Magistrates Court where he admitted the charges.

Alison Levitt (left) yesterday warned this 'rigid mindset' could lead them to miss or even disregard significant material that could clear defendants. Her comments came after 25-year-old Isaac Itiary (top right) was the second man in a week to have rape charges against him dropped due to police blunders.

Nadya Suleman, who now goes by Natalie, says she wants to share her story with other women after admitting her controversial pregnancy led her to the brink of suicide.Speaking to DailyMail.com the mom of 14 revealed: 'Every day I would wake up with the ugliest, dead, visceral feeling inside of me. ' Suleman's notoriety landed her roles in porn films which she has now come to deeply regret. Although she admits residuals from the film help pay the bills.She became infamous in 2009 after undergoing IVF treatment and became pregnant with octuplets, even though she already had six and was unemployed. Now Suleman admits she was 'very foolish, immature and selfish' to have 14 children but can't 'imagine my life at this point in time any different than it is.'

Travellers who were evicted from a busy train station have now set up camp in a nearby car park where they plan on celebrating Christmas. The family of 132 had previously brought their 65 caravans to Cambridge North station but were slapped with an eviction notice and told to move on. They had set up Christmas decorations, including a large inflatable Santa and their vehicles were being vacuumed and draped in fairy lights to celebrate festivities. But they have now moved to a former park and ride site in Cowley Road, next to Innovation Park, which is owned by St John's College, Cambridge University.

Theresa May ended a generally iffy year by giving Jeremy Corbyn a cheerful spanking at PMQs. She threw off her glumbucket persona and got stuck in to the old boy. Thrashed him like a dusty carpet. Gents in Mayfair pay good money for that sort of thing. I am told. 'Y'know,' she said, all conversational as she danced away from the despatch box and held her ballpoint pen with the fingers of two hands, 'not that long ago he was saying he was going to be prime minister by Christmas.'

Clare Foges (pictured centre) recalls when her younger sister Molly (pictured left and right in 1991) came to live with their family. Molly had been placed in foster care three days after being born as her birth mother was unable to care for her. Clare had lost her own father a year earlier and believes the arrival of Molly a night before Christmas eve in 1990, was just the distraction the family needed. She says despite their more than nine years age gap they've remained close.

A gang of 10 moped raiders behind a £1 million crime spree across London laughed in the dock today as lawyers took almost an hour to outline the 99 previous convictions they have amassed for 172 offences. Prosecutors say the judge should pass severe deterrent sentences on the thugs after an 'exponential rise' of moped robbery on the streets of London. The bandits stole phones, tablet computers and caused damage worth more than £1 million using hammers, knives, a gun and even a fencing post as a battering ram. They hit different Three Mobile outlets several times in the early hours to grab the latest handsets and were in and out in 'a matter of minutes.' The gang sat in the dock chatting, looking bored and giggling loudly as prosecutor Michael Shaw spent nearly an hour reading out their prior convictions.

Karen Clifton has jetted to America to spend Christmas with her family shortly after her husband Kevin was seen spending time with Louise Redknapp.  The 35-year-old professional dancer was seen larking around with her nieces in a series of sweet Instagram snaps as she prepares to spend her first Christmas away from her husband in their two years of marriage.  Just two days before, Kevin and Louise were seen out together hot on the heels of claims Karen had called Louise's estranged husband Jamie to 'warn' the footballer of their friendship before the split was announced. 

Just when you might have thought obesity rates in Britain couldn't get much worse... along come these Christmas treats. And as if it wasn't already easy enough to pile on the pounds at this time of year, retailers are selling super-sized Christmas chocolates that contain the equivalent of over 500 teaspoons of sugar. Weighing around 10lb, you can buy a giant Toblerone 12 times the size of the original bars at 2ft 7.5in long. It contains 2.8lbs (1.3kg) of fat, 6lbs (2.7kg) of sugar and has 24,075 Kcal. Each triangle measures approximately 10in by 10 inc and costs £108.

Caroline Edmondson, who was nicknamed 'sugar t**s' by Tory MP Mark Garnier, made a dig at the MP in her festive card. Posing with a box of icing sugar, the caption says 'Let's cause a stir this Christmas'. Wearing a Santa apron and a cheeky grin, Caroline poses with her partner, Sky News's Jon Craig in front of a tree decorated with baubles. In October it emerged that Mr Garnier asked her to buy two sex toys in a Soho shop when she worked for him in 2010.

Families stormed Windsor Clive Primary School (right) in the Ely area of Cardiff, after devastated pupils were allegedly rebuked for their poor theatrical performances. Mothers and fathers also claim youngsters were warned they would be given only bread and water for their Christmas party if they did not behave. Such was the uproar at the school, that head Vicky Meadows (left) cancelled yesterday evening's second showing of the festive play. One furious mother has now urged fellow parents to write to the school's governors, ranting on Facebook: 'We want the best for our children and they don't deserve to be mistreated.'

This is the heart-rending moment a Chinese prisoner who had been given a death sentence bid a final farewell to his young daughter. The little girl was apparently too young to understand the significance of the meeting. She happily waved to her crying father and said 'bye bye dad' - without realising what the separation would mean to the rest of her life.

A family must give their home for the past 31 years to their neighbours after losing a legal fight over an extension they claimed was built three inches into their garden. A court ruling means the Constantines have three weeks to move out of their seven-bedroom home worth £600,000 in East Ham, London - and give their keys to their neighbours, the Ali family, after losing an eight-year legal battle. A judge ordered Herman Constantine (bottom right, with boxes ready for moving out and, top left, showing the three inches of land which were in dispute), 66, and his wife Yvette, 57, to leave the property where they have raised their three children. The Constantines accused the Alis (top left, Sardar Ali) of trespass by knocking down their fence and building an extension three inches into their garden - which forced both families to turn their homes into fortresses bristling with security cameras (bottom left) and anti-neighbour notes. But the Constantines lost the trespass case and were ordered to pay their neighbours' legal costs. The couple today said they were heartbroken after the judge ruled against them and said they have nowhere to go.

The spectacularly different individuals - including an enormous baby from India weighing 38lbs (left) - were all featured in a series of truly unique people. Among the other fascinating folk featured in the collection are Martina Big (inset), a German glamour model who shocked her fans with a new tan that turned her skin dark brown. and Sara Geurts (right), 26, who is determined to carve out a successful modelling career despite battling with Dermatosparaxis Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) - a genetic condition which causes excessively saggy skin.

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, 40, looked dazzling in a purple velvet dress in Oslo on Wednesday evening. The first in line to the throne attended a formal event at the Swedish academy with her husband Prince Daniel, 44, (pictured left with Victoria) who looked dapper in a black tailcoat. Also at the event was Prince Carl Philip and his wife Princess Sofia, who wore a stylish blue gown (right).

Ann Pachett, an author and bookstore owner from Nashville, Tennessee, gave up shopping after she felt it was 'numbing' and a 'distraction'. Pachett gave herself some rules to follow: She was forbidden from buying clothes, but she could purchase flowers, plane tickets, and books, as well as go to restaurants. She revealed that the experiment freed up lots of time and made her realize she could use her time better to help those less fortunate.

Roger Hartigan, 43, and his colleagues Joe Rich and David Harrison were out in the centre of Bristol for their work Christmas party when they met the elderly woman (pictured). They stopped to speak to the woman, who was trying to shelter from the cold with all of her belongings in plastic carrier bags. The men tried to hail a taxi to take her to a hotel but none would stop, so they split up and asked around local hotels to try and find a spare room. (Inset: Mr Hartigan with the woman after arriving at the hotel.)

Hero cyclist Jozef Dobias, 30, caught a bike thief on his cycle home in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland. Footage of the incident shows the cyclist ride past a man cutting off a lock before chasing him and confronting him in a train station 15 minutes later. The thief brazenly denies the claim that he stole the bike by saying 'You didn't see f***ing nothing'. He triumphantly replies 'I saw everything and everything is on a GoPro as well.' After the clip went online the owner of the bike managed to retrieve it from Gardai.

The Bolton-bornformer boxer, who is a practicing Muslim, posted a photo of the tree on Instagram yesterday night, saying his three-year-old daughter would like it when she woke up. He posted: While everyone's asleep, daddy put the Christmas tree up. Lamaisah's going to be happy.' But the post led to a horrific backlash from some his followers, who posted abusive and threatening messages in response.

Kitty Dimbleby's (pictured left) family attempted to style each other for Christmas day. She styled her mother Bel (pictured far right), her mother styled her grandmother Gladys (pictured right seated) and her grandmother styled her daughter Chloe (pictured far left). Kitty says she knows her mum and nan wish she sometimes made more effort with her appearance.

These close-up shots of Jupiter were taken during a Nasa space probe and capture swirling clouds in the planet's northern and southern hemispheres. Juno has been making observations and recordings of the giant gas planet, which were then beamed back to Earth. Early science results from Nasa's mission portray the largest planet in our solar system as a turbulent world, with an intriguingly complex interior structure, spectacular polar aurora, and huge cyclones. Pictured (clockwise from top left): Huge storms in which one cloud formation is more than 4,000 miles (6,500 km) long; JunoCam snapped this image on February 2 from an altitude of around 9,000 miles (14,500 km); This colour-enhanced image of a massive, raging storm in Jupiter's northern hemisphere; This image highlights a massive counterclockwise rotating storm that appears as a white oval in the gas giant's southern hemisphere.

Shocking footage shows a man jump across a train station platform narrowly avoiding an oncoming train by a split second. The video is believed to have been taken at Stratford station in East London. Social media users have branded the man an 'idiot' for risking his life for internet fame.

The unidentified fishing vessel, which is marked with Japanese lettering, was found within the Arcadia Beach State Recreation Site in Oregon (top left). Inside was a valuable cargo - the ship was overrun with gooseneck barnacles (right), a delicacy that can cost diners £90 a plate. Photos from the wreckage show masses of the barnacles clinging to the overturned hull, as well as seagulls feasting on them. Experts say that, after the tsunami, the vessel was most likely trapped by the Kuroshio Current (bottom left) which runs along Japan's east coast. Professor David Tappin of the British Geological Survey - who was one of the first foreigners to assess the damage to Japan back in 2011 - said the ship might even have landed on Hawaii first and hit the US West Coast afterwards.

Patients at St John's care home in Norwich were visited by charity Miniature Donkeys for Wellbeing which was set up by Sarah McPherson, 54, after she noticed the positive effect they had on her mother. Specially trained horses, alpacas and donkeys visit care homes as an alternative to traditional activities like playing bingo and watching television. Pamela Beckett, 81, who has Alzheimer's, beamed with delight as she hugged the donkeys in front of her visiting daughter and granddaughter. Afterwards, she said: 'It was lovely, it made my day.'